House of Leaves
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House of Leaves is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 14, 2021 and April 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves”; “I’m like halfway through this book and I’m enjoying it in a House of Leaves kind of way”. It most often appears alongside Reddit, A.E. Waite, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 14, 2021
- Last seen: April 20, 2022
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Related Pages
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- Reddit (2 shared issues)
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- A.E. Waite (1 shared issues)
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- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (1 shared issues)
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- Adlerian psychology (1 shared issues)
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- AL (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Power (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- American Gaming Association (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Australian Gambling Research Center (1 shared issues)
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- B. F. Skinner (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share. Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
I'm like halfway through this book and I'm enjoying it in a House of Leaves kind of way. I don't get it but it's spookily confusing, has aggressively nonstandard formatting, and feels like there's something there.